Apple Care (for Humans)
Apple plans to enter the health insurance industry by 2024, according to CCS Insights’ Chief Analyst Ben Wood. Many of you have followed the decade-long saga of big tech attempting to enter the healthcare space to compete with incumbents, only to fail. Healthcare verticals, like insurance, are tough to enter and disrupt. Apple certainly has…
Read MoreWhy Walmart Created a Clinical Trials Vertical
Walmart launched the Walmart Healthcare Research Institute, aiming to increase community access to clinical trials. The clinical trials space has received more attention lately: CVS Health and Walgreens announced earlier this year that they’ve created new verticals focusing on clinical trials. All three companies are targeting the clinical trials space intending to make clinical trials…
Read MoreEli Lilly’s To-Be Blockbuster Anti-Obesity Drug Receives Fast-Track Designation
The FDA granted Eli Lilly’s revolutionary anti-obesity drug called tirzepatide fast-track designation, expediting the drug’s arrival to market. This is big news for Eli Lilly and the medical community, given clinical trial data shows the drug is extraordinarily effective for weight loss and improvement in cardiometabolic health. I’ve been covering tirzepatide throughout the year (here…
Read MoreDigital Health Funding in Q3 Comes to a Halt
Digital health funding reached a relative halt in the third quarter of 2022 with only $2.2 billion in funding raised across 125 deals. This is the lowest funding for digital health since the fourth quarter of 2019. If this funding trajectory continues into Q4, 2022 funding may barely reach half of 2021’s total funding. The…
Read MoreOutside the Huddle: 10/9/22
1) How Covid-19 Has Evaded the Immune System A recent study out of the University of Pennsylvania gives us a new explanation as to how the SARS-CoV-2 virus evades the human immune system. DNA in our cells wraps around proteins called histones, which make it more compact, preventing cells from transcribing those DNA segments into…
Read MoreHealthcare Q3 ’22 Recap
Three quarters down, one to go. In this article, I’ll wrap up the content I published in Q3. Consider this your Q3 Recap Guide. If you still don’t know what happened in Q1 and Q2, don’t fret. Catch up below: Healthcare Quarter 1 Recap Healthcare Quarter 2 Recap INSURANCE The Three Dooming Insurance Cliffs Americans…
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